The South Australian electrical journal
Electrician AdelaideA journal of electrical work, safety and the South Australian house
Adelaide edition
This is not a booking desk. It is a long-form journal on safety switches, heritage villas, rooftop solar, storm nights and the paperwork that keeps South Australian electrical work honest.
Start with home electrical safety, the switchboard and wiring hub, or our notes on solar, batteries and charging.
South Australia learned rooftop solar early. The useful questions now are about inverters, export, isolation and the board that has to host the work — not about whether a brochure can make the panels pay for themselves.
Safety
How Adelaide houses give themselves away before a fault becomes a fire, and what a licensed electrician still has to do.
Switchboards
Fuse boards, RCDs, neutrals and the particular mess of rewiring a South Australian bungalow without wrecking it.
Energy
Inverters, export limits, home batteries, EV chargers and the electrical load of Adelaide hot water.
Houses
Heritage villas, 45-degree summers, bushfire country, granny flats and the outdoor rooms Adelaide actually uses.
Rules
How to check a South Australian electrician, what a Certificate of Compliance is for, and what an owner-builder still cannot do.
Storms
Dirty power after a cell goes through, generators that will not kill you, and the moment a blackout becomes an emergency.
Plane trees and service mains have been arguing in these suburbs since the 1920s. Private canopy is yours to manage; network assets are not yours to prune. Nobody sensible does this work from a ladder.
Equipotential bonding, a socket that still closes after a hot January, and a spa that is not an appliance you discovered at the hardware store. The Adelaide backyard is a wet electrical environment that happens to have vines.
A dedicated charger is a new circuit, an earthing question and a conversation with the rest of the house — not a gadget that happens to live on a brick wall. Look at the board before you look at the car.
Workplace tagging is a system for other people’s gear on other people’s floors. At home, a visual habit and residual current protection do most of the work; a numbered tag on the kettle is usually a costume.
Stirling, Aldgate and Blackwood already live with trees, winter sun and a feeder that can vanish for an evening. That is a reason to design backup. It is not, by itself, a reason to leave SA Power Networks.
A portable generator is not a plug with ambitions. Without a changeover switch it can back-feed the street. This is the unhurried version of not killing a linesperson.
Three-phase is not a status symbol. It is a network conversation about workshops, induction cooktops, ducted air and the moment an EV charger arrives on a board that already hosts solar. Sometimes load management is cheaper than a new service.
The Wiring Rules are why a bathroom socket sits where it sits. They are not a personality, and they are not a substitute for a licensed electrician with a certificate.
The desk
Electrician Adelaide publishes original reporting for homeowners, landlords and owner-builders who want the unhurried version. If you have a pitch, read the guest posting guidelines. For corrections, use the contact form. Our editorial standards explain how we handle licensing claims, sponsored mentions and safety advice.